Little by Edward Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks. Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely ...Show more
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.'Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catc ...Show more
Strange the Dreamer (#1) by Laini Taylor
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Prepare to be enchanted' Sun The magical Sunday Times bestseller by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy ********* The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder th ...Show more
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life i ...Show more
Freedom's Land by Anna Jacobs
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular
Norah's husband was killed in the Great War, and she's struggling to provide a home for her daughter. Andrew's wife is dead and he wants to make a new life for his two sons. The Australian government is giving ex-servicemen a farm. But to join the group settlement scheme, Andrew must find a wife. Will a ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; long ...Show more
Exploded View HB by Carrie Tiffany
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A dangerous man moves in with a mother and her two adolescent children. The man runs an unlicensed mechanic's workshop at the back of their property. The girl resists the man with silence, and finally with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives - in the engine of the ca ...Show more
The Chocolate Maker's Wife by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: DS Cormac Reilly #2
Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London--a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue...and chocolate. Damnation has never been so sweet... Growing up ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Man Booker-winning The Famished Road, a young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words - Who is the Prisoner?This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. The answer is im ...Show more
The Shouting in the Dark - & Other Southern Writing by Elleke Boehmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Late at night Ella watches her elderly father on the veranda, raging at the South African night sky. Caught between her mother's longing for her lost Dutch home, and her father's shattering wartime experiences in the Indian Ocean, Ella fights hard to understand where she fits into their lives and how to ...Show more
Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens | Reading Level: very good
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by historian Alison Weir, author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, is the third enthralling novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. A fascinating look at Henry VIII's third wife. Essential reading for fa ...Show more
A Short Affair by Simon Oldfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: An Anthology
'A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual' STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is a vibrant anthology that combines the best of original short fiction with remarkable work by contemporary artists from the Royal Academy Schools. In this visually stunning collection from Pin Drop, the reno ...Show more